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Thank you, Alex for the help to determine the species and the interesting details!
Best regards
Frank

should be the latter, when I see specimens with these olive green and bronze red colours it always seems to be C. illigeri, the wide shiny interstices on tergite 2 in the last picture also points towards it

... at 16-Jul-2022. Would it be possible to determine the species? I assume Chrysis bicolor or Chrysis illigeri. Thank you and best regards Frank _Chrysis_bicolor_illigeri_IMG_0484 (3).jpg _Chrysis_bicolor_illigeri_IMG_0481 ...

yes looks like a male C. illigeri

in the future, please reduce the picture dimensions before posting

nice pictures, tyhey are very hard to get good photos of!

it's a female Chrysis illigeri or bicolor, leaning towards the latter but I can't say for sure

Val d’Arda (PC), N Italy. 28.viii.2020. I think this is a Chrysis but I would much appreciate advice on species identification. It looked quite similar to Chrysis illigeri in colour and pattern, as seen at home in England. However, it was more strongly ...

Thew genal distance looks a bit too long for that species, I would suggest Chrysis illigeri female instead

This Chrysis spec. todyay, 01-08-2020 on a wooden post. Location: The Netherlands, southern part area: new housing estate, nature playground, lots of wooden posts and wooden playground equipment, abundance of wild flowers. Size: ...

... half of July to half August) are : Hedychrum and Hedychridium, some Chrysis (analis, illigeri). Jérôme

... shown specimen could belong to C. bicolor, cause Linsenmaier wrote in his book "Die Goldwespen der Schweiz" Page 90, that males of C. illigeri don't show this middle-line on the last tergit. Anyway, I've added some pics in low quality from another specimen of the same location. I hope ...